Thosands use B&W telly

[thinfourth2]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/8355519.stm

And it's nothing to do with a B&W license being cheaper is it

[fido]

I assume it's the same people who don't like new things, and think 'coloured' people are 'enterprising' (eek .. i actually heard two old ladies using that phrase on the 85 (to Putney) .. )

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-tec...

Edited by fido on Thursday 12th November 10:31

[FNG]

I'd be amazed if more than one in ten of those licences are correctly issued to people who only have B&W televisions.

What chances the "TV detector van" coming round to check? Zero. So may as well save a few quid to put towards the next 52" plasma when the current one's gone pop / is the wrong colour.

[madala]

.....if one is colour blind there is not much point in having a colour TV.....

[bonsai]

madala said:

.....if one is colour blind there is not much point in having a colour TV.....

Why not? They don't see the world in greyscale.

[Morningside]

madala said:

.....if one is colour blind there is not much point in having a colour TV.....

There was a court case about this a number of years back. Although he was totally colour blind (quite rare I think) he was using a video recorder that is capable of receiving a colour picture, therefore he HAD to have a colour license.

Edited by Morningside on Thursday 12th November 11:27

[southendpier]

They must have a very big lounge, can they all see the picture?

[catso]

madala said:

.....if one is colour blind there is not much point in having a colour TV.....

Unless one wants something better than a 1970s' vintage 12" screen to look at, I doubt anyone makes a 52" B&W Plasma screen.

[nonegreen]

FNG said:

I'd be amazed if more than one in ten of those licences are correctly issued to people who only have B&W televisions.

What chances the "TV detector van" coming round to check? Zero. So may as well save a few quid to put towards the next 52" plasma when the current one's gone pop / is the wrong colour.

Ah the TV detector van. What a great wheeze that was, with all its dials and knobs and a big dish on the roof. Even if it could pinpoint tv use, it certainly could not tell if the reciever was monochrome as its the same signal. I think this is just a ploy to give the 30000 a chance to go buy a colour license

[Uhura_Fighter]

Can you still use a B&W set. 1970s TVs didn't have scart so how can you still get a signal (Digi box etc), Hasn't everyone gone digital yet?

[RichBurley]

Until recently, it seemed that every chinese takeaway waiting area I've been in, has a B&W television. So that probably accounts for a few thousand of them!

[andy_s]

My Grandad had a B&W set converted to colour by putting a transparent plastic sheet over the screen, the bottom third was a green shade, the middle pink and the top blue. The horse racing was fine but it looked very odd when anything else was on.

[bonsai]

Uhura_Fighter said:

Can you still use a B&W set. 1970s TVs didn't have scart so how can you still get a signal (Digi box etc), Hasn't everyone gone digital yet?

That's an interesting point, I guess when the digital swtchover has been completed in 2012 or whenever, the TVL can scrap the B&W License entirely.

[andy_s]

As part of the 'Go Digital' campaign they set an old (one of the very first) TV up to recieve digital and show it on the screen, obviously in B&W. The guy said it was quite easy to do - he was a mad feller in a celler full of old-school TVs.

[lord summerisle]

Uhura_Fighter said:

Hasn't everyone gone digital yet?

nope not yet.
Just lost BBC2 in the last couple of weeks, but ain't set to loose the other 3 channels till Dec.

(Granada region)

[catso]

Uhura_Fighter said:

Can you still use a B&W set. 1970s TVs didn't have scart so how can you still get a signal (Digi box etc), Hasn't everyone gone digital yet?

We (Central) still get analogue channels and you can adapt scart to aerial type plug with an RF adaptor.

But if you need a colour licence for a digital receiver then I suppose the B&W licence will be scrapped once the analogue signal's gone?

[Morningside]

catso said:

Uhura_Fighter said:

Can you still use a B&W set. 1970s TVs didn't have scart so how can you still get a signal (Digi box etc), Hasn't everyone gone digital yet?

We (Central) still get analogue channels and you can adapt scart to aerial type plug with an RF adaptor.

But if you need a colour licence for a digital receiver then I suppose the B&W licence will be scrapped once the analogue signal's gone?

Another method is to use your old video recorder, put it on AV1 and use the RF out to your TV.

Plus sky TV still works through the RF connector.